Like men, nations are purified and strengthened by trials.

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God's own method of training the young, and homes are very much as women make them.

Where there is a will there is a way.

National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.

The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast welldoing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful.

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.

As soon as we ask whether or not a story is true in the present moment, we empower ourselves to re-frame it.

Master of magic, god of war, Odin wanders alone.

...we ought also to consider as false all that is doubtful.

no job is a good job if it isn't good for you.

I didn't know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds like a huge waste of time.

When you asked me how I was doing, was that some kind of joke

Sometimes in politics, you think you've seen it all. Turns out I was wrong.

The vision of an entire world becoming just like us is at least as discomfiting as the thought that most of it won't.

I'm always constantly battling with dry patches. I think I need a Plan B. Thankfully, I've always been able to pull something out of the bag in the heat of the moment.

Don't ask for love when you are not capable of giving it.